| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, david(at)fetter(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx |
| Date: | 2006-01-30 16:32:23 |
| Message-ID: | 1138638753.1990.149.camel@camel |
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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> >Andrew,
> >
> >
> >
> >>A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that
> >>will
> >>download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish
> >>many
> >>many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and
> >>installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing a lot
> >>simpler in many cases.
> >>
> >>Of course, building it would be quite a bit of work :-)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yeah, just ask the Perl folks. I believe that CPAN took about 4 years
> >to get working.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> They were kinda blazing a trail.
>
> I don't think Ruby Gems took anything like that long to flesh out.
>
probably cause they were using ruby instead of perl! ;-)
Robert Treat
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